χρή (chre): all forms
χρή means “it is necessary, one must”. Below is its full conjugation in Ancient Greek.
Present active
Present active | Indicative | Subjunctive | Optative |
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| 3rd singular | χρή | χρῇ | χρείη |
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Imperfect active
Imperfect active | Indicative |
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| 3rd singular | ἐχρῆν |
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Infinitives
Infinitives | Active |
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| Present | χρῆναι |
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Meaning and examples of χρή
Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.